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Ahn Love

Frances Park
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A dreamy romp, Ahn Love opens with Margaret visiting her widowed father Sam Ahn for his ninetieth birthday. His crippling loneliness – marked by a conviction that if his orchids ever bloom, his wife will come back to life – transports Margaret to the Ahns’ seven-day cruise across the Pacific in the summer of ’69 when she was a lovesick teen nicknamed Monkey, when her beloved if not servile Uncle Bong betrayed the family, and when her beautiful mother’s encounter with a Brazilian playboy ultimately charted her death a decade later.

Like the seas, the journey had its highs and lows. It was magic, tragic, exotic and erotic – all things new to Margaret, including her romance with the dashing Adam Kang, a young Korean Brit who loved her but hated himself as the two sailed through a whole courtship as if ship years were measured in hours. Indeed, clocked love and lost paradise lay the seeds of Ahn Love.

Published: Jan/2026

ISBN: 9789815266351

Length: 240 Pages

Ahn Love

Frances Park

A dreamy romp, Ahn Love opens with Margaret visiting her widowed father Sam Ahn for his ninetieth birthday. His crippling loneliness – marked by a conviction that if his orchids ever bloom, his wife will come back to life – transports Margaret to the Ahns’ seven-day cruise across the Pacific in the summer of ’69 when she was a lovesick teen nicknamed Monkey, when her beloved if not servile Uncle Bong betrayed the family, and when her beautiful mother’s encounter with a Brazilian playboy ultimately charted her death a decade later.

Like the seas, the journey had its highs and lows. It was magic, tragic, exotic and erotic – all things new to Margaret, including her romance with the dashing Adam Kang, a young Korean Brit who loved her but hated himself as the two sailed through a whole courtship as if ship years were measured in hours. Indeed, clocked love and lost paradise lay the seeds of Ahn Love.

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Amazon

Frances Park

Frances Park is a Korean American author of novels and memoirs published around the globe. Her books have been praised by The Straits Times, The Washington Post, The Korea Times, USA Today, The Times Literary Supplement, The London Times, The Korean Quarterly, The Taipei Times, National Public Radio, Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, CNN, Newsweek, and Good Morning America.

Her stories reflect an identity born of two worlds. In her novel Blue Rice, a Korean woman who survived the war must acclimate to 1960 white America as she senses her husband’s desertion. Her poignant novel The Summer My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon portrays the spiritual deformity of two Korean American sisters growing up in Washington, DC suburbia in the 1970s. That Lonely Spell, a memoir-in-essays, was praised by Kirkus Reviews as “a fresh take on the Korean American memoir by a writer from a generation whose voice has seldom been heard.” Her award-winning short stories and personal essays have appeared in over fifty magazines including O, The Oprah Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, The Columbia Journal, The London Magazine, Arts & Letters, The Bellevue Literary Review, and The Chicago Quarterly.

The theme of losing her father young haunts much of the author’s work. In Ahn Love she imagines him today, had he lived to the ripe old age of ninety.

Frances lives outside Washington, DC. Visit her at parksisters.com.